what if this is all the love you'll ever get

There wasn’t much in his first statements that she could easily agree with except what he said about love being the death of duty. She would have given up all of Ashen to have Seer, all of her duties for the freedom of love. Rose explained it how he saw it, but Belle found herself unable to believe. Sirius returned to her from the dead, of his own free will. He’d refused to acknowledge he was anything more than a slave until Belle forced him to. ”No, that can’t be right.” Sirius was not in the game of deceit. He was too pure for that.

Rose didn’t know Sirius like she did, didn’t see the emotions that she saw. How deeply he felt for her, and the continuing promise that he offered the Empress, out of his love and devotion to her. Maybe now that he embraced his rank Seer might not have complied with every order given by a Klein, but he would do anything she asked. Even ignore his feelings for Zee if she asked it of him. ”Rose, he’s different. I know he is.” Her voice was plagued with the emotion she felt for her fanged warrior. ”They’re so much more than slaves to me…” She thought they loved her. Would Seer have even told her if he didn’t?